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Bluebird350

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Art lover, photos my own unless noted. climate science, anti-racism, gardener, medicine, democracy kindness and hope. No DM.

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Bluebird350 @bluebird350.bsky.social · Dec 4

Circular reasoning causes venous outflow disease to become invisible to radiologists. Veins are the red headed stepchild of vascular medicine, yet their compromise is associated with some of the most debilitating diseases. #CCSVI www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cranial venous outflow insufficiency; rendered almost invisible to radiological imaging by circular reasoning. Rethinking normal craniocervical venous anatomy

Cranial venous outflow insufficiency, a model of brain dysfunction based on partial or intermittent obstruction to cranial venous drainage, is an atte…

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 3d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 12h

This is truly brilliant. Such a way to communicate,
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 11h

Great speech. This especially resonated with me:
"I’d make it crystal clear in my writing where I was coming from so that there would be no ambiguity."
This has been my editorial policy from the beginning. It closes some mainstream media doors, but builds trust with my readers.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h

New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control.

I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:

Truth, morality and independence in journalism under the second Trump regime

My full remarks to students and faculty at Grennell College.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Bluebird350 @bluebird350.bsky.social · 9h

I appreciate you. I found your work very inspiring on the bad place. I’m glad you are here.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 1d

Choose your fighter.

DC Sandwich Guy throwing sandwich at officers

Chicago priest being assaulted by troops

Guy carrying American flag surrounded by gas.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 11h

It might be time for trial lawyers to come together again to start some form of evidence banking.

Historians also.

Librarians needed to catalog and index.

This is critical work for future accountability and we need to start doing it now.

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Bluebird350 @bluebird350.bsky.social · 11h

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putawomanincharge.bsky.social @putawomanincharge.bsky.social · 15h

FYI ..
EPSTEIN used young boys too.
Yes. He. Did.
Another HUGE reason they are fighting this.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 12h

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 13h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Bluebird350 @bluebird350.bsky.social · 12h

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 12h

Context from earlier this week.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 19h

With all the talk of 'illegal' and 'migrants on boats' in the UK, much of the discussion also forgets that these are people fleeing persecution - some may be dissidents. Human rights matter but there are other reasons why you don't hand them back, to help evil regimes.

Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 19h

Russian asylum-seekers are being deported en masse to their country of origin, where many are imprisoned upon arrival due to their involvement in opposition and anti-war campaigning foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/08/t...

Trump Is Supporting Transnational Repression

Instead of sheltering pro-democracy dissidents, America is now returning them for arrest.

foreignpolicy.com

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 20h

MAGA is freaking out & splintering over a leaked text chain—which TPUSA’s Andrew Kolvet says is real—where Kirk wrote “Just lost another Jewish donor…Jewish donors play into all the stereotypes. I cannot & will not be bullied like this. Leaving me no choice but to leave the pro Israel cause.” 1/

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Bluebird350 @bluebird350.bsky.social · 20h

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

this is wonky stuff and is also really important

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

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Bluebird350 @bluebird350.bsky.social · 1d

Iowan should vote for her when that happens too.

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Bluebird350 @bluebird350.bsky.social · 1d

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

Bluebird350 @bluebird350.bsky.social · 1d

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Bluebird350 @bluebird350.bsky.social · 1d

Oh! 🙀🤩😻

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Roanoke Action Collective @roanokeaction.bsky.social · 2d

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MrBeanThePug65 @mrbeanthepug65.bsky.social · 1d

He should send them to Kerrville to find the still MISSING campers.
Wheels needs a hobby or a girlfriend.

Sara Spector @miriam2626.bsky.social · 2d

Greg Abbott used Texas taxpayer money to fly undocumented immigrants to Chicago and now he's using Texas taxpayer money to send our troops there to clean up a phony crisis he created.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Oh SHIT. Two birds with one stone and neither were for immigration. It was to hassle black folk and make a sizzle real about it and to help Wells Fargo out.

Fucking crazy shit.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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